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& s. [Lat. nocturnal is, from nocturn us = nocturnal; nox (gen it. noctis )=night; Sp. nocturnal.] IMG:content-0084.png:[blocks in formation] marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-0085.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0086.png:[blocks in formation] "Like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down." Shakesp.: Richard III ., iii. 4. 3. The motion of the head of one asleep or drowsy. The land of nod: Sleep. 2. Pertaining to a nod, as a token of salutation or familiarity; carried on by means of nods; as, a nod- ding acquaintance. ( Colloquial .) II. Bot .: Inclining very much from the perpen- dicular, so that the apex is directed downward. that which nods or is nodded; a nod. C. As subst.: The act or motion of one who or "Such fluid matter as these spirits are, upon the nod- dings of the conarion forward, may easily recede back." -More: Immortality of the Soul , bk. ii., ch. v. nod-dle, *nod-el, *nod-il, *nod-le, *nod-yl, s. [For knoddle , a dim in. from * knod ; cf. O. Dutch knodde = a knob; Icel. knúdhr = a knob, a ball. Knod is a variant of knot (q. v.).] 1. The head. (Used in contempt or derision.) "You say very right, Sir Oliver, very right; I have't in my noddle, i' faith."- Barry : Ram - Alley , iv. 1. 2. The back part of the head or neck; the cere- bellum. [NODULE.] neck."- Burroughs Method of Physic. (1624.) "After that fasten cupping-gla es to the noddle of the IMG:content-0087.png:[blocks in formation] "Uphoisted arms and noddling head." nod-dỹ, s. & a. [Prob.=one who is drowsy or "The whole race of bawling, fluttering noddies, by what title so ever dignified, are akin to the a in this fable."-L'Estrange: Fables. 2. A game at cards, supposed to be cribbage. 3. A small two-wheeled vehicle, drawn by one horse. II. Ornith.: A popular name for Anõus stolid a , so called from its being easily captured. "At last they caught two boobies and a noddy ." Byron: Don Juan, ii. 82. 1. Astron .: The point in which one orbit cuts a second one. Specif., the point of the orbit of a planet or a comet in which it cuts the ecliptic, or in which the orbit of a satellite cuts that of the primary body around which it revolves. "Whilst the orbit of each planet constitutes a plane pa ing through the sun, those planes do not coincide but intersect each other at various angles. Each in con- sequence cuts that of the earth at two points. When any planet is at such a point she is said to have reached one of her nodes." -Airy : Popular Astron. (6th ed.), p. 151. 2. Acoustics : The same as NODAL-POINT OF NODAL- LINE (q. v.). 3. Botany : IMG:content-0088.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0089.png:[blocks in formation] I. Ord. Lang.: A small lump or knot. II. Technically : no egger at hi a